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Destiny's Children

Wall Street Journal - Jan 27, 2012
Many things mark the tradition of realism—one that includes among its masters Honoré de Balzac, Émile Zola, Theodore Dreiser and John Dos Passos—but it is distinguished above all by illustrating the pressure that social arrangements bring to bear on ...

Joe Paterno - An American Tragedy

Blogcritics.org (blog) - Jan 26, 2012
I recall reading Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy back in college, and it seemed to me to be one of the most solemn works, the heft of which weighed on me long after I had read it. The quick summary could be something about the main ...

Modern Library Revue: #33 Sister Carrie

The Millions - Jan 23, 2012
Add me to the ranks of those powerless to resist the pithiness of this line, which, conveyed to me by a history professor who spoke highly of its utility, indeed proved instrumental in guiding me through Theodore Dreiser's great American novel.

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The Financier

by: Theodore Dreiser
A defiant critique of American capitalism

A MASTER OF GRITTY NATURALISM, Theodore Dreiser explores the corruption of the American dream in The Financier. Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth, women, and power. As Cowperwood deals and double-deals, betrays and is in turn betrayed, his rise and fall come to represent the American success story stripped down to brutal realities—a struggle for spoils without conscience or pity.
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Sister Carrie

by: Theodore Dreiser, Donald Pizer

The text of the Third Edition is based on the 1900 Doubleday Page edition, with detailed annotations that reveal the author’s use of real people and places in Chicago and New York.

The novel is followed by "A Note on the Text," which discusses the relationship between this edition’s text and that of the Pennsylvania Edition (1981), and a "Textual Appendix," which provides a generous sampling of the cuts Dreiser and his friend Arthur Henry made in the typescript version of .
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American Archives

by: Shawn Michelle Smith

Visual texts uniquely demonstrate the contested terms of American identity. In American Archives Shawn Michelle Smith offers a bold and disturbing account of how photography and the sciences of biological racialism joined forces in the nineteenth century to offer an idea of what Americans look like--or "should" look like. Her varied sources, which include the middle-class portrait, baby picture, criminal mugshot, and eugenicist record, as well as literary, scientific, and popular texts, enable her to demonstrate how new visual paradigms posed bodily appearance as an index to interior "essence.
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THE "GENIUS"

by: Theodore Dreiser
The Genius
By Theodore Dreiser

Chapter 1
This story has its beginnings in the town of Alexandria, Illinois, between
1884 and 1889, at the time when the place had a population of somewhere
near ten thousand. There was about it just enough of the air of a
city to relieve it of the sense of rural life. It had one street-car line, a
theatre,—or rather, an opera house, so-called (why no one might say, for
no opera was ever performed there)—two railroads, with their stations, .
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